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Rautavaara: Angels and Visitations

Einojuhani Rautavaara (Composer), Leif Segerstam (Conductor), Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra), Elmar Oliveira (Performer) | Format: Audio CD
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  • Performer: Elmar Oliveira
  • Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Conductor: Leif Segerstam
  • Composer: Einojuhani Rautavaara
  • Audio CD (6 April 1998)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Ondine
  • ASIN: B000003797
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 58,732 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Violin Concerto: I. TranquilloElmar Oliveira12:52Album Only
Listen  2. Violin Concerto: II. EnergicoElmar Oliveira11:27Album Only
Listen  3. Lintukoto (Isle of Bliss)Leif Segerstam11:29Album Only
Listen  4. Angels and VisitationsLeif Segerstam19:16Album Only

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Very enjoyable 8 Jan 2011
By enthusiast TOP 500 REVIEWER
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This is a very enjoyable disk with some excellent pieces, very well played. Rautavaara does seem to have quite a few different voices and what I have heard of his music is of variable quality. But I think I do begin to recognise his distinctive voice in each of these pieces and it is certainly the case that the three pieces here are each of high quality. The Violin Concerto is an attractive and effective piece and occupies a similar sound world to John Adam's violin concerto. Angels and Visitations is a powerful and impressive piece and is highly recommended. The Isle of Bliss is perhaps less distinctive than the other two but it is an attractive piece. This may well be the best introduction to Rautavaara's music.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Another mixture of different styles in this CD, from the most romantic Rautavaara in the beautiful poem "Isle of Bliss", to the modernist and serialism of the Angels and Visitations poem.

Violin concerto is well performed, and has a great mixture of those romantic and modernist ideas. It has really nice moments, but sometimes the modernists timbrics and dialogue between instruments could make you tired.

In general, highly recommended.

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Great introduction to Rautavaara's sound world. 10 Nov 2000
By Ed Brickell - Published on Amazon.com
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Rautavaara is a modern composer accessible to anyone, but without sacrificing musical interest. The three compositions on this disc are a good introduction to his work. The closest "big name" musical kin I can think of would be Sibelius, but Rautavaara's work is more mystical in conception. He is very much his own composer, and his musical personality is well represented here.

The violin concerto is more overtly dramatic than many of Rautavaara's compositions, but never vulgar, and the solo part is played with beauty and fire by Elmar Oliveira.

"Isle of Bliss" is an orchestral fantasia lasting just a little over 11 minutes. After a strong beginning it goes a bit formless in the middle (somewhat of a weak point with this composer; he tends to sag a bit structurally at times) but masterfully evokes a strong sense of atmosphere throughout. Listening to it, I felt as though I was walking the chilly, rocky coastline of a secluded island, and as it turns out a remote Baltic Sea island was the composer's inspiration for the piece (as he himself explains in the excellent booklet notes).

"Angels and Visitations" is another work in this composer's self-titled "Angel Series," but as usual it's no new-age orchestral puff piece. As he explains in the booklet, it was inspired by a terrible recurring dream he had as a child. It stirs up a strong sense of drama, effectively mixing beauty, terror and awe throughout its nearly 20-minute length.

Not quite an hour of music, excellently recorded as is usually the case with Ondine. Leif Segerstam obviously believes in this music and leads the orchestra through some of the most effective Rautavaara performances on record. I play this one often and would recommend it to anyone interested in Rautavaara or in approachable, interesting new music.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Great! 29 Dec 1999
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
The violin concerto is a very energetic and interesting work. Very lovely and myserious at points as well. Brilliant orchestration. Angels and Visitions, also the title of the CD, is an almost impressionistic work, and is superb. All in all highly recommended-5 stars.
14 of 18 people found the following review helpful
"Angels and Visitations" not bad at all... 16 Dec 1999
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
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Although I have many reservations about "Angel of Light" (Rautavaara's Seventh Symphony), I have none whatsoever about "Angels and Visitations", the title work of this CD. It's a very well constructed 19 minute tone poem which was inspired by a nightmare that the composer experienced multiple times. It's a truly beautiful and creative piece of music. Rautavaara is a master of orchestration, of course. But what strikes me the most about "Angels and Visitations" is its absolutely flawless musical narrative -- how motives are developed and juxtaposed, and how textures grow from one another or are transformed. And it has none of the excessive (sentimental, I dare say) sweetness of the Seventh Symphony -- I don't think that would be a proper response to a nightmare! Indeed, "Angels and Visitations" is really quite gritty in some passages. Rautavaara's own liner notes refer to Rilke's famous phrase "Every angel is terrifying" -- which is also a great description of this piece, especially when one remembers another idea from Rilke's Duino Elegies: that beauty is only the beginning terror. The other pieces on this disc are not quite as gripping to me. The violin concerto is certainly very lively and an effective showpiece for the soloist, but it doesn't quite hold my interest. The most recent work on his disc, "Isle of Bliss" is rather too close to the sentimental world of the Seventh Symphony for me -- the beginning is rather commonplace (almost like dated film music), and the main body of the work is too uneventful for me. Thus, I can't rate this disc higher since only one work out of the three in this disc really holds my interest.
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